The Hidden Life of Wolves
Jim Dutcher
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Description for The Hidden Life of Wolves
Hardback. Of all animals caught in crosshairs of environmental dilemmas, wolf is the most challenging. The authors have spent years getting to know these animals. In this title, their photographs, stories, observations, and evaluations come from living intimately with the wolves and challenge many deeply held misconceptions about this animal. Num Pages: 192 pages, 120 Colour Photographs, 1 Map. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 263 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Delve into amazingly intimate wolf photography by Jim and Jamie Dutcher, a couple who spent many years living with a pack of wolves at the edge of Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness, observing their complex social hierarchy. Here is the alpha pair, leaders of the pack, often the only couple that mate. Here are the pups, born with eyes shut in the spring, tousled by their mother through the first six weeks of life. Here is the omega wolf, lowest ranking wolf in the pack, whose subservience, often playful, alleviates pack tension. Here are moments of cooperation and moments of snarling dominance, ... Read more
Delve into amazingly intimate wolf photography by Jim and Jamie Dutcher, a couple who spent many years living with a pack of wolves at the edge of Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness, observing their complex social hierarchy. Here is the alpha pair, leaders of the pack, often the only couple that mate. Here are the pups, born with eyes shut in the spring, tousled by their mother through the first six weeks of life. Here is the omega wolf, lowest ranking wolf in the pack, whose subservience, often playful, alleviates pack tension. Here are moments of cooperation and moments of snarling dominance, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781426210129
SKU
V9781426210129
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99-15
About Jim Dutcher
JIM DUTCHER is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer whose extraordinary camerawork has led audiences into places never before filmed: inside beaver lodges, down burrows to peek at wolf pups, and into the secret life of a mother mountain lion. His work includes the National Geographic special, A Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond, and ABC World of Discovery's two highest-rated films, ... Read more
Reviews for The Hidden Life of Wolves
Ever since, as a child, I read about Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, I have been in love with wolves. This exciting book will help their cause
they deserve our concern and our protection.
Jane Goodall An inspired account. The return of the gray wolf is a proud moment in the history of our American ... Read more
they deserve our concern and our protection.
Jane Goodall An inspired account. The return of the gray wolf is a proud moment in the history of our American ... Read more